J. Caleb Bell
Vice President

Phone: 614.227.2384
Fax: 614.227.2390
Email: jbell@argusgrowth.com
  

 

Caleb Bell is Vice President of Argus Growth Consultants, Ltd. He is also a member of the Public Finance Practice Group of Bricker & Eckler LLP, an affiliate of Argus. Caleb's practice emphasizes structured and public finance. He has served as bond counsel, issuers’ counsel, underwriters’ counsel, and borrowers’ counsel in a wide variety of municipal bond transactions. His clients include Ohio municipalities, counties, townships, and public universities, and he regularly works as bond and underwriters’ counsel to the state of Ohio and its agencies. He represents several Ohio port authorities, serving as bond and underwriters’ counsel on taxable and tax-exempt port authority conduit and cooperative financings. He has diverse economic development experience, including service as counsel to both local governments and developers utilizing development tools, such as tax increment financing (TIF), special assessments, community redevelopment area (CRA) abatements, joint economic development districts (JEDD) and zones (JEDZ), job creation tax credits, special improvement districts (SID), and new community authorities. Caleb also specializes in energy finance. He served as special energy counsel and underwriter’s counsel in over $3 billion of natural gas and electricity prepayment bonds issued during the past four years. In addition, along with several other Bricker attorneys, Caleb authored Ohio’s property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing statute.